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May 13, 2020
Libby Watson
It Will Be Needlessly Hard to Get a Coronavirus Vaccination in the U.S.
A health care system designed to rake profits for an elite few is ill-suited to carrying out a nationwide herd immunity project.
May 13, 2020
Nick Martin
The Pandemic That Changed Everything Changed Nothing
In a global health crisis, political déjà vu becomes deadlier.
May 13, 2020
Talmon Joseph Smith
The Deficit Hawks Are Circling Their Old Roosts
America may emerge from the coronavirus pandemic straight into a hot war over the future of the economy.
May 13, 2020
Annie Abrams
A Privatization Fever Dream for Post-Crisis Public Education
Millions of students are now learning from home, and pro-charter, anti-teacher forces are trying to seize the moment.
May 13, 2020
Matt Ford
For Trump, Following the Law Is an Undue Burden
Much like their client, the White House’s lawyers don’t seem to understand what a president does, but they’re not letting that stop them.
May 13, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Coronavirus Is Making Us All Camgirls
For millions of newly remote workers, doing your job now involves looking the part, figuring out your angles, and performing for the camera.
May 12, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Congress May Hand Bill Barr the Keys to Your Online Life
Against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis, our unaccountable surveillance state is set to expand.
May 12, 2020
Nick Martin
Is the Supreme Court Scared of Tribal Sovereignty?
The public airing of Supreme Court arguments has laid bare just how ill-equipped the justices are to handle the basic tenets of Indian law.
May 12, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Election Will Not Be Judgment Day
A massive undertaking lies ahead of Joe Biden if he truly wants an epochal shift in American politics.
May 12, 2020
Kate Aronoff
There Are Green Jobs Hiding in the Oilfields
Paying oil workers to clean up extraction sites and capture carbon could help both the economy and the planet.
May 12, 2020
Laura Weiss
Is Biden Going to Repeat Obama’s Immigration Mistakes?
The presumptive nominee has promised to reverse Trump’s xenophobic policies, but he’s failed to reckon with his own party’s failings.
May 12, 2020
J.C. Pan
Work Requirements Have Always Been About Punishment
The pandemic has offered a brief respite from policies that force people to work to “deserve” basic support like food stamps. We can’t go back.
May 11, 2020
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Alexander Zaitchik
No Vaccine in Sight
The U.S. was once at the cutting edge of pandemic prevention. Then Big Pharma took over.
May 11, 2020
J.C. Pan
A Leftist Future for Asian American Politics
Asian American identity remains deeply fragmented, but politics—and the movement for economic justice—is a growing unifier.
May 10, 2020
Tasmiha Khan
Something’s Got to Give for the Work-From-Home Parent
Am I being a bad mother if I’m not giving my son full attention? A bad employee? Both?
May 9, 2020
Libby Watson
The Depressing Future of the #MeToo Movement
The radical promise of “Believe Women” has been an unintended casualty of the quickly fading Biden sexual misconduct controversy.
May 8, 2020
Matt Ford
A Presumption of Flynnocence
Attorney General Bill Barr’s transparent corruption has reached farcical new levels. And he’s not done by a damn sight.
May 8, 2020
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Kate Wagner
The Coronavirus Is Tearing Apart the American City
After the pandemic, the rich will barricade themselves further. National chains will supplant local businesses. And the gig economy will explode.
May 8, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Pandemic Surveillance State
In the drive to “reopen” the economy, the means to radically expand tech-based surveillance and criminalize our everyday lives are there for the taking.
May 7, 2020
Alex Pareene
Trump’s Coronavirus Task Farce
Councils, work groups, and advisory boards are planning the future of the country. No one is doing much about the present.
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